Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunket
Literary usage of Sunket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Somebody's ower near the fire ; thor claes is sung." SUNK, a straw pad formerly
used for a pack saddle. Compare SOD and PAD. sunket, a small number, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"sunket-tinte is meal-time. The etymology of sunket is uncertain. Herd derived it
from something.—JAMIESON. Whenever an uncertain etymology in English or ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"It is often applied to bread not sufficiently baked. sunket, ». to pamper; cocker;
cram with delicacies. sunket, s. a contemptuous application of a silly ..."
4. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"It is often applied to bread not sufficiently baked. sunket, v. to pamper; cocker;
cram with delicacies. sunket, s. a contemptuous application of a silly ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"In Scotland' sunket seems to imply tne same -^iand the word is sometimes so
pronounced in Suffolk. See sunket. •'' ,"-;-h Shakespeare writes the word ..."
6. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"In Scotland sunket seems to imply the same —and the word is sometimes so ...
See sunket. Shakespeare writes the word Junket, and in our Suffolk sense, ..."
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